Suicide bombers killed 23 people in a series of attacks in Iraq today.
One attack killed three at a Baghdad restaurant near the heavily fortified Green Zone compound, while a suicide car bomb near the northern city of Mosul killed 10 and wounded 20 in an attack on the office of a Kurdish political party.
In the city of Baquba, a suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a police building, killing 10 people and wounding 10 others.
A suicide bomber earlier this month killed one lawmaker and wounded two dozen other people in an attack on parliament inside the Green Zone. The compound houses various government buildings and embassies.
America's ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, in his first news conference since arriving in Baghdad in late March, said the months ahead for Shia Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's fractious government of Kurds, Sunni Arabs and Shias are critical.
"Iraqis need to move away from zero sum thinking. The very definition of reconciliation means you've got to move away from an 'I win, you lose' mentality to some form of broader accommodation," he said.